What would happen if women disappeared? In a future so real and close that it could be the present, a strange paradox begins to occur: When women sleep, they wrap themselves in something that looks like a cocoon and… do not wake up again. If someone tries to tear the web, they react with unimaginable violence.

In the small town of Dooling, a virus spreads in a women's prison infecting all the inmates except for one, Iv Black. Is Iv a medical anomaly to be studied or a demon to be killed? At the mercy of their primal urges, men split into warring factions. Some want to kill Iv, others want to save her. What they don't know, however, is that once women fall asleep, they open their eyes to a wholly new world… Don’t wake them up!

“This wonderful first collaboration between Stephen King and his son Owen King is a work of realistic fantasy, embellished with rough strokes of horror, and with a plot that unfolds at the speed of a freight train.” – Publishers Weekly

Stephen King is one of the most significant authors of our time. He has written over 50 novels, 200 short stories and essays, with sales exceeding 350,000,000 copies. His works, many of which have been made into films or series, include Carrie, It, Salem's Lot, The Shining, the epic Dark Tower saga, The Green Mile, Misery, Hearts in Atlantis, The Outsider, Elevation.

He has been awarded the Bram Stoker and Locus awards, from the British, American, and International Horror Writers Associations, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the National Medal of Arts of the U.S., while in 2016 he was honored by the Library of Congress for his Lifetime Achievement. In 2018 he received the prestigious PEN literary award. Owen King has written the novel Double Feature and the short story collection We’re All in This Together, and was one of the writers of Intro to Alien Invasion and the editors of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories.